BA strike: Actor Ian McKellen says hobbits dont join trade unions

By Tim Walker 958PM GMT twenty-two March 2010

Shooting on The Hobbit in New Zealand has been put back, but Sir Ian McKellen says the British Airways set upon is not to censure for the delay.

"Nice, respectful hobbits don"t stick on unions," he pronounced on The Christian O"Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio. "How I"m going to get to Australasia is an additional matter, but I"ll be down there if it all happens, personification Gandalf."

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Barbara Windsor prepares to stick on West Enders

Having voiced that she will be withdrawal EastEnders after this year, Barbara Windsor is formulation a lapse to the West End.

"The last thing I did, in fact, prior to I got EastEnders was Entertaining Mr Sloane," the 72-year-old singer forked out at the Laurence Olivier Awards, at the Grosvenor House road house in Mayfair.

"It would be good to do something new since that is what we wish new plays."

Windsor, who has played Britain"s most appropriate well known landlady, Peggy Mitchell, for fourteen years, pronounced she had already perceived lots of offers of theatre roles.

"I didn"t design it, but I was unequivocally chuffed. I thought, "This ageing sex pitch … ?" It will be 60 years this year that I will have been in the commercial operation and I love [it] as most as when I initial went in, and the offers are still coming."

Nick Clegg is unimpressed

Nick Clegg might whim himself as a intensity kingmaker, but Rory Bremner is not assured of the Lib Dem leader"s importance.

"I don"t think my hold up would be significantly poorer if I don"t burlesque Nick Clegg," says the radio impressionist. "Life is short sufficient but sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him."

Golden generation

Mandrake is contemptible to listen to that Lady Mary Clive, the last of the late Lord Longford"s five siblings, has died elderly 102.

Sir John Betjeman pronounced he was "devoted" to Lady Mary, the writer of Yuletide with the Savages, who was one of Lord Beaverbrook"s prime journalists.